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Re: getting things "square"

To: Scott Hall <sch8489@garnet.acns.fsu.edu>
Subject: Re: getting things "square"
From: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 13:11:35 -0800
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 02:37:23PM -0500, Scott Hall wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 epetrevich@relavis.com wrote:
> 
> > I was building a server cabinet and fish tank stand this weekend and I was
> > having a hell of a time getting/keeping things square.  I have a level
> > table to work on, but once I got to adding legs and such in the 3rd
> > dimension, I was having a hell of a time.  I can't measure cross corners
> > because the other corner isn't build yet.
> 
> inch,
> 
> at work we generally set the part to be welded on the huge ex-i.b.m.
> robotics table (perfectly flat) and tack a corner.  then bend tack weld to
> get perfectly level/square, then have somebody hold it (if necessary) and
> tack the opposite corner, then the other two corners, sort of the same
> pattern you'd use to put on lug bolts.  then you weld the whole thing.
> lemme know if it sounds confusing, I'll try to explain it better.  seems
> to work well, though.


That reminds me- when making the stand I wrote about earlier
I discovered that my garage floor isn't all that flat.


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